Episode Details

Heidi DeCoux is a serial entrepreneur who's built four businesses with 50%+ profit margins, sold 3 of them, including a 7-figure exit, and has appeared in magazines and websites like Forbes. She's become known as "The Optimizer" because she's passionate about helping entrepreneurs optimize their businesses and life. She's now gearing up to launch her newest company, Alchemized Teams, designed to help small businesses build winning teams.

Show Highlights

• Unleash the "genius" of every child with learning guides instead of teachers.

• Revolutionize K12 education across the planet with micro schools or pod schools that offer customized learning experiences for every student.

• Motivate students to learn how to innovate themselves regularly.

• Wipe the slate clean of traditional factory system education and redesign the school experience for today's world, emphasizing innovation, entrepreneurship for a rapidly changing future.

• Create a customized learning experience without grouping students by grades or ages.

• Incorporate a 3 part phase program for deep financial literacy and life skills into student programming.

• Help students navigate both their personal and work lives in an ever-changing world.

"We need to create something new for today and how the world is quickly changing. I'm coming in saying, 'No, wait, classrooms don't exist. Chalkboards don't exist, desks don't exist.' When you've been in education for a long time, it's hard to break that mindset. And so they tend to just default to innovating the existing instead of wiping the slate clean and saying, 'If we were creating school for the first time today and you had never seen a classroom, you had never seen anything that existed today, how would you do it? What would you create that meets students with today's world?' And that's designed to innovate itself."

-Heidi DeCoux

"I would say the one thing that we know for certain throughout history is that the only real progress has come from the Ruckus Makers. So if not you, who, and if not now, then when."

-Heidi DeCoux

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